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Here is the scan of the sales review. There are more nuggets, help yourself. This stuff has been around for years, yet nobody bothered to take a look--surely there are a lot of articles that could use these lists!

• If you're interested, here is a 1998 sales report which mentions that FU2 sold 3363 copies--quite miserable and contrary to TTLG's info. No idea how you could possibly cite this, however. Electroguv (talk) 21:50, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to get Monkey Island 2 to the GA status--it's a shame such a classic doesn't have it yet--and I'm currently having a lot of trouble with finding development info. Could you help me out and try finding something in your sources database (which, as far as I'm concerned, is large enough to cover the entire history of Looking Glass Studios)? Electroguv (talk) 22:56, 3 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• On the subject of MI2--I know you'll retire sooner or later (real sad, considering you reappeared after quite a long absence), but would you like to help me with the article should I put together a decent Development section (which now seems to be the case because I found a few interesting tidbits the other day)?

Hey JB—would you be able to get me a copy of the Mischief Makers coverage in NG issue 34? czar ♔ 00:53, 11 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I wanted to drop a note about

I have no way of knowing exactly how much it's been used, but I do see evidence of its impact from time to time, which always makes my day.

I believe I originally found your online sources page when searching for EGM reviews for Mischief Makers—wouldn't have known those archived sources would have existed without your work, so thank you. As a suggestion for your new guide: what would be helpful for me is a pointer to all the online places to search for each platform (where to search for Atari vs. NES vs. SNES/Genesis—what magazines covered each one and the best way to search them systematically). No pressure, just something I was thinking about czar ♔ 22:03, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Wikipedia_talk:VG#Source_update—does that mean you have Mitaphane's originals or digital copies? czar ♔ 00:47, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, awesome! More than I was expecting... Thank you very much!!! I hope I can do a great use of this material. Cheers, Gabriel Yuji (talk) 04:19, 14 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hello again, JimmyBlackwing, and thanks once more for your help at Sega Saturn. It turns out there is something else you could assist us with. Red Phoneix used material from the "EGM rates the systems of 1996!" article in Electronic Gaming Monthly 78 (January 1996) for the "Reception" section, but was unsure about the correct page number when I asked him abut it. I noticed you have this issue in your collection, so I was hoping you could look into the matter. Cheers,TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 22:16, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your effort to find scans online, regardless. Is the citation still accurate, then? Regards,TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 01:38, 23 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks again for the thorough review. I'm interested in the FACs where "short length" was criticized, if you can point me towards them czar ♔ 18:49, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey man, I recently put Super Mario Bros. 3 up for a peer review, and was wondering if you could kindly give some feedback on the article. I'm planning on taking it to FA in the upcoming weeks so anything would be appreciated! Thanks for your time. URDNEXT (talk) 21:21, 29 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

So this little number finally has a bronze star on itself. And since you mentioned in the nomination that you helped with acquiring the sources for the article, I wanted to say thanks. Also, you probably should update your "History" section on your user page. Looks to be dated. GamerPro64 00:50, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You know what? I was thinking about an Ion Storm topic after all of this. Heck, I wondering about how to work on the beast that was Daikatana. Mainly because that article was the one that got me into working on Wikipedia. Well at least going on its talk about lead me to the project. So yeah I'm all for it. Deus Ex is already a Good Article too, though it may need cleaning up. Maybe we can start with that one. GamerPro64 14:21, 1 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JimmyBlackwing,

Here is the review you requested --> [1] <-- --SubSeven (talk) 01:12, 4 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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OK I located the article after a bit of searching but it's not very long really. It was situated in a "PC news in brief" kind of section. Anyway here's the blurb:

• MacDonald, Thomas L. "Game Views: Inside the Box - News From the World of Electronic Gaming - PC." Games. No.175 (Vol 25, #9). November 2001. Pg.74. ISSN 0199-9788.

I hope you find it helpful. -Thibbs (talk) 00:23, 6 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You have been blocked from editing for a period of 31 hours for flat-out insulting another user., as you did at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games. Once the block has expired, you are welcome to make useful contributions. If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding the following text below this notice: ((unblock|reason=Your reason here ~~~~)). However, you should read the guide to appealing blocks first.  ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:11, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Believe me when I say I really wish I didn't have to do this, but come on man... you can't just say shit like that. The diff has been RevDel'ed but you know what I'm talking about. And I'm 100% certain that you sincerely know better. I dunno what got into you to post that but I really regret that it happened; please understand that I just couldn't see that and let you off with a warning and still call myself a fair admin. ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:13, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

My 2¢ (having seen the post and chosen not to reply "WP:NPA") is that a warning would have sufficed czar ♔ 02:15, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't seen the post myself but I agree that a warning should've happened first. I swear anything Niemti related brings the worse out of us. GamerPro64 02:18, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Okay, so I may have jumped the gun a bit because I was so shocked to see an editor whom I respect a lot flatout insult another, seemingly unprovoked. I agree a warning would've been better than a full block, and thus I unblocked you, but Jimmy... please don't do that again. :) ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 02:37, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks, Salvidrim. At the time, I saw it as an uncontroversial assessment of his behavior over the last several years, from a psychology standpoint. It was never intended to be an outright flame. However, I fired off the remark without much thought, and I was irritated by the idea of BOZ's amazing work being systematically vandalized. I see now that these factors produced a comment that reads like a random, disrespectful and unproductive insult. I regret posting it and causing all of this fuss. Sorry for the bad form, guys. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 03:21, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• For what it's worth, I agree with you on the specifics of this "dispute" and I can certainly understand that tempers can run high when dealing with Niemti. Thanks for not taking my action too harshly, I overreacted slightly (a bit like you did maybe?), so it just goes to prove that nobody's perfect. But if you're gonna fight to the death, at least pick an opponent that's worth your time. *hug* ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 13:34, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate your honest and thorough FAC review. I was more interested in your help, rather than a freebie support vote, so there's no need to apologize for not holding back. That being said, I found your review to be incredibly frustrating for the reason that most of your suggestions were proposed reversals of input that I've received via peer reviews and GANs over the last four years. Seriously, look at them and you will see people insisting that I remove the content that you were insisting upon. That's frustrating to me because I completely agree with all your points, but I have been editing the page at the insistence of others who had certain details that they found imperative for every quality scale benchmark. Nonetheless, your criticism seems the most valid, so I'll do what I can to fix the prose and make the text pragmatic. DARTHBOTTO _talk•cont 00:41, 12 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jimmy, very nice to hear from you! Of course I've considered something like this, and I planned to actually bring BS5 and BASS to GA status, but of course they're quite a big piece for me, and I've been rather lonely in my Revolution editing, with the exception of your help with copy-editing & plot sections. Plus I've been a little inactive lately. If you'd be willing to jump in, I might get a bit of motivation. :) Cheers, --Khanassassin ☪ 18:03, 27 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/System Shock --Harizotoh9 (talk) 20:35, 1 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have Game Informer July 2007? I'm attempting to source the last line from Deus Ex mods:

Two texture mods, Project HDTP and the enhanced OpenGL renderer, were featured in a July 2007 issue of Game Informer, along with gameplay mod Shifter.

czar ♔ 22:04, 2 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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To JimmyBlackwing, thank you for writing the article "Thief II: The Metal Age". Axl ¤ [Talk] 18:15, 16 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there. I saw your essay, and it's quite good. It's also very similar to and more comprehensive than something I had been planning and started writing for the 2014 3rd Quarter WPVG newsletter. Would you be interested in contributing your work as the featured article for that issue? Take a look at our conversation here for more details. Cheers. —Torchiest ^talk_edits 04:00, 17 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I saw that you have Flight Unlimited III up at FAC. Also, I noticed you saying that once it gains Featured Article status, you would nominate the Looking Glasses topic to Featured Topic. I'm just letting you know that it doesn't have to be nominated. Once a Good Topic has at least 50% of their content be of Featured Content, it automatically becomes a Featured Topic. Hopefully that makes things a bit more easier. GamerPro64 15:24, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Specifically, you update the little stars on the topic, and let the coordinators (*cough*GamerPro64*cough*) know, and they'll shuffle the categories/templates around. --PresN 22:56, 21 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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		You put a ton of effort into reviewing Secret of Mana, helping transform it from a pretty good article into something that can be proud to wear the bronze star, and serve as an example of what early-90s video game articles should look like. Thank you so much for all your hard work reviewing! --PresN 01:34, 23 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for helping the games project! URDNEXT (talk) 23:08, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks very much for offering with the sources! Well, Legend of Mana come out in NA in June 2000, and JP in July 1999, so articles would be in:

• a review around EGM issue 133 (August 2000)
• a review in Next Generation issue 8 (August 2000) with a preview in Next Generation issue 55 (July 1999)
• OPM US preview in issue 21 (June 1999), news in issue 24 (September 1999), preview again in issue 33 (June 2000), and review probably in issue 35 (August 2000, if you have it)

I'm particularly desperate for development information, so if EGM has anything else I'd really appreciate it. No rush on any of this; I've been moving pretty slowly on this article for a while and I can always jump ahead to Sword of Mana. --PresN 21:45, 26 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you very much! Yeah, the ultimania isn't going to happen- I spent 24 solid hours once hand-OCRing and translating a few mediocre scans of interviews from the Final Fantasy XIII ultimania after an FAC complaint, and I am never ever doing that again. There's no good scans or translations out there, and I don't much feel like spending $30 on a book I can't read for a game I didn't play. --PresN 05:37, 27 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JimmyBlackwing. You may remember offering me some of your resources if I wanted to go for Dreamcast. I'm finally back from my extended Wikibreak (meh, about two months) and would be ready to go on that. That being said, I also have another question involving if you have sources... I'm working right now on a GA review for PlayStation (console) and honestly it's missing a lot of content. I've suggested a full refit to a user called Jaguar, and he's at work on it, but any sources you have could be really helpful here as well. Much as I may be a Sega nerd, I wouldn't like to leave this article for such an important console just hanging. If you've got anything for either one, that would be fantastic. Thank you, Red Phoenix ^{let's talk...} 15:29, 30 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This is to inform you that System Shock, which you nominated at WP:FAC, will appear on the Wikipedia Main Page as Today's Featured Article on 22 September 2014. The proposed main page blurb is here; you may amend if necessary. Please check for dead links and other possible faults before the appearance date. Brianboulton (talk) 21:33, 3 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for quality articles on video games such as System Shock, following "countless standards for video game article quality", for collaboration and taking care of the project archives, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:15, 22 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for Thief II: The Metal Age, precious again, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:49, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Two years ago, you were recipient no. 786 of Precious, a prize of QAI! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:24, 5 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for today's Flight Unlimited III, "not a well known game. It bombed commercially and helped to bankrupt its developer, Looking Glass Studios. Even the company's management, and publisher Electronic Arts, seemed uninterested in it. Still, it was technologically advanced for its time, and reviewers loved it." --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:19, 28 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Six years now! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:50, 5 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Jimmy, thanks for the edits. Question on this:

Fez was released on April 13, 2012, and it sold 200,000 copies during its yearlong exclusivity to the Xbox Live Arcade platform.

Why was that "it" needed (bolded)? czar ♔ 06:12, 28 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:29, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not receiving any further input, not even from CR4ZE. Should I simply go ahead and start a peer review for Dota 2? DARTHBOTTO _talk•cont 23:16, 4 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You probably noticed the ping, but I have opened a new peer review. Do people ever say "fourth time's a charm"? :P DARTHBOTTO _talk•cont 23:25, 15 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I was looking through the article and noticed a hidden message about wanting to add a piece of information but it was in the second issue of Play magazine. By any chance do you have a copy or know how to get that information fully sourced? GamerPro64 00:36, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I guess I'll worry about that later. While we're on the subject of magazines, do you have anything involving the game? GamerPro64 01:01, 5 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad my work is appreciated. The only one I'm feeling uneasy about bringing up for any kind of review is the Characters article. There aren't really the sources to make it as complete as I would like. Also, I've recently nominated the article for FF character Lightning as an FA, so I prefer to focus fully on that for the time being. Anyway, thanks for the message. --ProtoDrake (talk) 09:09, 7 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Update for you: I'm making a push towards getting my Drakengard GT. I'm doing a rewrite of the Characters article in my sandbox. If you would like to contribute, feel free. Any improvements you can make to the other two in my absence would also be greatly appreciated, but are not compulsory. --ProtoDrake (talk) 20:13, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Jimmy. I just want to say thank you for sticking up for me at my RfA. It was a train wreck but I still appreciated you backing me up on certain issues raised. Makes me happy when you know others are on your side. GamerPro64 03:19, 11 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed this listed at WP:VG talk. It was "one of mine" and I've been under the impression it was a GA :S Looking at the talk page it seems I nominated it, then withdrew the nom "for now". The best I can recall, I probably withdrew it during a period of inactivity: I nominated several articles for GA, waited a few weeks during which I ended up having less time; someone then decided to review multiple of my nominations at once and had a go at me because he ended up failing a couple. I'm guessing that was when and why I withdrew the nomination. I guess maybe I should just go ahead and nominate it; though not entirely sure I can be bothered... Cheers bridies (talk) 08:24, 16 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Glad to see someone noticed; it's always encouraging. I had originally just planned on doing Seiken 3, then did Secret as well, and then since I had the sources... It'll take me a while to get the last three, since I'm busy at work/with a new baby, but I'll get there. It's good to see you still here, tooling around giving crazy-in-depth reviews; hope you find another big project to work on now that your LGS FT masterwork is done (speaking of impressive)! --PresN 01:49, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jimmy,

I regret to say it, but I simply do not have the time nor energy to edit Wikipedia for the foreseeable future. I was really enthused about fixing up the Dota 2 article, but with my new film, I've been stripped of the resources I'd need to edit, so I do believe I must step away. I would, however, be interested in hearing if you'd feel compelled to edit the article yourself and possibly bring it to FA status if you were so willing. You have excellent intuition about this kind of thing, which would be a relief for the article's sake, as I believe I can't help it further at this time. DARTHBOTTO _talk•cont 19:11, 22 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

An update concerning the FA nomination of said article. It's in the process of being promoted. Thank you for the extensive prose review. --ProtoDrake (talk) 15:41, 27 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Jimmy, regarding your edit request, I'd prefer not to deal with TFA conflicts until the 1st. My thinking is that we pull people like you into the process to help make the rules, but we'll have to do that carefully. More on the 1st. - Dank (push to talk) 20:26, 30 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mean to sound like a tantruming child, but would I be eligible for an exemption of the two-week prohibition for this FAC? It failed on inactivity grounds with no unaddressed feedback; there was one support and one extensive review from a user who wasn't available very often and was almost done, and because there hadn't yet been two supports (though this second reviewer only had one section to go), I couldn't ask for image and source reviews. Again, I don't mean to just pout because I didn't get the result I wanted (I actually reviewed a Video games WikiProject member's GAN in exchange for them reviewing someone else's older FAC); I just don't have anything to work on with it for two weeks, which it looks like is supposed to be the point of the prohibition. Thanks. Tezero (talk) 17:03, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• @Tezero: Wrong talk page. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 17:12, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  • Couldve sworn I went to Ian Rose's. Thanks, I guess. Stupid phone. Tezero (talk) 17:31, 24 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Could I please have a scan of the Lego Racers review from issue 1 (Jan 2000) of Next Generation Magazine? Thanks, BlookerG ^talk 10:55, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Could I also have a scan of the Lego Racers review from Issue 51 (Dec 2001) of the Official PlayStation Magazine? Thanks, BlookerG ^talk 10:57, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey JB—thought you'd be interested in this article:

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Hey JB—I'm looking for EGM scans of reviews from the Super Mario Land series. Should be reviews of the three series games in July 2003 #168, if you have a moment. czar ⨹ 18:57, 11 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hey JimmyBlackwing, I took a look at the Famitsu reviews of Red Alarm. Sadly the quality of the scan is such that some of the diacritics and especially the smaller radicals in complex kanji were too blurry for me to have more than 90% confidence in my transcript. I'll give you what I produced for what it's worth. You can probably get some kind of a sense of what they're saying by copy&pasting to Google Translate or any of the other online translators. On the other hand the names of the reviewers are quite clear and I'll provide those too. Reviewers in order from top to bottom: Sawadi Noda (サワディ・ノダ), Mizu Pin (水ピン), Isabella Nagano (イザベラ永野), and Ninja Masuda (忍者増田)

Hopefully you can use some of that. You may already know but PlanetVB is also hosting a 4-page article on the game in the August 1995 issue of Virtual Boy Tsushin (pp.32-35) (link: [2]). The quality of that scan is even worse than the Famitsu article, though. I'm not sure I could get more than 60% of it even with the help of the furigana.

I looked through my Portuguese and Chinese material as well and there are a few references to the game, but only the Portuguese Super GamePower had what I would consider "significant coverage" in the sense meant by GNG (i.e. they devoted a sidebar to the game and images of it), and even that was pretty small. Here is what they said in case it is helpful: "Red Alarm - As imagens deste game de tiro espacial parecem simples demain, até você começar a jogar. Uma visão por trás da nave permite vôos acima, abaixo e em torno de obstáculos e naves inimigas. Seu arsenal inclui lasers e mísseis." (Morales, Marcelo (ed.) "Cicuirto Aberto" Super GamePower No.18, P.11. September 1995. ISSN 0104-611X). Also in their May 1995 issue (No.14) at P.10 they compared the game to Star Fox ("Led [sic] Alarm é um jogo tipo Star Fox produzido pela T & E Soft. Foi montado em wire frames."). I can get you scans of any of these sources if needed. Only one Chinese article I found covered the game, but it was just a listing of VB titles. For what it's worth, the Chinese name for Red Alarm is "红色警报". -Thibbs (talk) 14:26, 15 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Got another one for you in case you're interested. This time it's in English:

• Wallace, Danny. "Virtually Here! - Red Alarm". Total!. Issue 46, Pg. 36. October 1995. ISSN 0964-9352.

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Happy to accept more accurate wording that will be understood by most Main Page readers (who aren't as knowledgeable about the topic, on average). - Dank (push to talk) 17:50, 29 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey JB—looking for EGM January 2004 (p. 189), a review of Blast Corps, when you have a chance – czar 05:51, 14 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Could you scan Killer Instinct Gold from Next Gen Feb 1997 (#26)? There's also a preview in #23, but it's probably not worth it unless it has development or reception material. Thanks again – czar 08:08, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Did Next Gen run a score or any other content in the magazine? – czar 22:59, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I was curious if you might be able to take the time to look at the December 2001 issue of Official PlayStation Magazine. There might be mention in there about a rather unknown game (which was ultimately cancelled) called Jurassic Park: Survival, which was delayed from its 2001 release date and then apparently rescheduled for a January 2002 release. I'm searching for confirmation of that 2002 release date. It might be listed in a game outlook section, or a coming soon section. I would be curious to know what it says about the game, if it's even mentioned in the magazine at all. Thanks. -- InGenuine (talk) 14:18, 13 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JB, I'm looking for scans that could be used to give some meat to sections like Development and Reception. Notify me if have something around. —Electroguv (talk) 06:27, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

• Great to have you back in full force, by the way. —Electroguv (talk) 19:23, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  • Well, so was Shepherd Book. Didn't stop him from kicking ass anyway :) —Electroguv (talk) 23:29, 19 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    • Good to know that. In the meantime, I found some little tidbits myself. —Electroguv (talk) 02:51, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
      • Very nice of you to provide me with these. Most of this stuff will come in handy once it's time to flesh out the Reception section. The NG preview is not partcularly valuable, though. The good thing is, despie there being virtually nothing on the game's making at a first glance, I still managed to find some very worthy material to work with. Anyway, thanks a bunch! —Electroguv (talk) 07:56, 27 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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• Fuck, and that was less than a month after my finger twitched waaay too fast on your account's block button. I'm really a shitty collaborator, ain't I? :( ☺ · Salvidrim! · ✉ 22:15, 25 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Jimmy. By any chance do you have an issue of Game Informer that has their review of Shantae? GamerPro64 17:02, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Jimmy. Gotta say this review is a bit lackluster, though. The games definitely not bad enough to warrant a 3/10. GamerPro64 21:24, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yeah I'm liking the game. A bit difficult but the dialogue is nice. Didn't know about their review of The Thousand-Year Door, though. That game was great. GamerPro64 22:43, 21 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey JB, in search of the Next Gen Dec 1999 review of Donkey Kong 64, if you have a moment czar 08:06, 17 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, JB. I was able to get the EGM review but I do need help finding the EGM April 2005 list of "overrated" games (specifically for the DK64 blurb). The ref lib says you might be able to help. (More details here, if it helps.) czar 17:05, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Jimmy, I've noticed that you put a lot of work recently into Menzoberranzan (video game). Would any of your sources be useful to add to the city the game is named after, Menzoberranzan? Commentary by reviewers on the setting for example, would be excellent. BOZ (talk) 01:36, 28 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there. Can you scan the coverage of Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within in both OPM January 2000 and August 1998? Finding any coverage on this game is really difficult. This would be a big help, thanks. TarkusAB 20:13, 9 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Jimmy,

I notice you've been putting some good work into the reception sections of mostly 20th-century video game articles, so thanks for that! Some of them should even be GA contenders with a bit more work, and I love to see that kind of progress. Better yet, a few of them had few if any sources at the time and you improved them substantially. I also noticed that, whether intentionally or not, a lot of them fall under a category I created, Category:Video games based on tabletop role-playing games and its child categories (so mostly D&D related, and a few others). I went through that category and its children, as well as sister category Category:Video games based on miniatures games and a limited selection from Category:Video games based on board games as well, and found a number that don't even have reception sections. If you can, please keep these in mind when you are looking for sources!  :)

• Avalon Hill's Advanced Civilization
• Axis & Allies (1998 video game)
• HeroQuest II: Legacy of Sorasil
• History of the World (video game)
• Talisman (video game)
• Multiplayer BattleTech: Solaris
• MechCommander
• MechWarrior (1993 video game)
• MechWarrior 3
• Warhammer: Dark Omen
• Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000
• Warhammer 40,000: Rites of War
• Heavy Gear (video game)
• Dungeons & Dragons: Order of the Griffon
• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin

BOZ (talk) 12:14, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Fantastic, thanks! You know, I always meant to come back to those articles and add more details from the Dragon articles, but of course there are always a million other things to do. Keep up the good work! I have other articles I found with slim reception sections, but even as I was compiling the list you were getting some of those done already, so I figured I would just point out the ones with zero reception info and let you do what you do for a while before bringing up the rest.  :) BOZ (talk) 21:15, 28 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Is this the Kingmaker page you're looking for?: Kingmaker (computer game)  ;) Of course, you could also drive yourself completely crazy trying to tackle the 1700 + articles identified as having no sources, but hey one at a time is always the best approach! As for Risk - easily one of my favorite board games - I started The Computer Edition of Risk: The World Conquest Game for the 1989 version years ago. Someone tried to turn that into an article about all of the computer versions at Risk (video game), but they didn't include any information on the other versions except in the infobox. I will try stubifying Risk (1996 video game) later today! BOZ (talk) 11:26, 2 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know about you, but brain farts are getting more common at my age.  ;) I started the 1996 Risk stub earlier today, for whenever you are ready! BOZ (talk) 17:12, 2 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not bothered in the least, in fact I was more worried about bothering you.  ;) I created a redirect for the board game series at Great Battles of History, which I might turn into an article later. As for the video game series, I started a very stubby article at The Great Battles series, whenever you are ready! BOZ (talk) 05:25, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in that case... ;) We could use a resurrection and expansion on the 1984 version of Diplomacy (computer game) (last good revision) if you can find anything there. Another video game based on a tabletop game is Doom Troopers (last good revision) which was redirected at AFD; it is now a section of the parent article and has gained one review since the AFD, but if there were more reviews... BOZ (talk) 11:51, 4 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I finally found enough sources to bring back that Diplomacy video game! :) BOZ (talk) 03:17, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Great work, a reception section on 2/3 of the articles which previously had nothing is a big improvement - and of the remaining 5, all but two of them have some kind of other sources, so that is better than nothing.  :) And several of them have multiple reviews now, so that is fantastic.

So, I took a look at my list and found all the articles that had only one or two reviews under the reception section. So, not as bad as the first list which had no reception section at all, but of course we definitely want to see more than just one or two reviews whenever possible.  :) Anything you can do for these - awesome! Take your time, no rush at all, whenever you can get to these.

• 1830: Railroads & Robber Barons
• Civil War (1988 video game)
• Diplomacy (computer game) (last good revision)
• Doom Troopers (last good revision) which was redirected at AFD; it is now a section of the parent article and has gained one review since the AFD
• Dragon Dice (video game)
• Kingmaker (computer game)
• A Line in the Sand (video game)
• BattleTech: The Crescent Hawk's Inception
• Multiplayer BattleTech: EGA
• MechWarrior (1989 video game)
• MechWarrior 2: Mercenaries
• Blood Bowl (1995 video game)
• Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny
• Space: 1889 (video game)
• Twilight 2000 (video game)
• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Slayer
• Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance
• Dungeons & Dragons Computer Fantasy Game
• Dungeons & Dragons Computer Labyrinth Game
• Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom
• Fantasy Empires
• Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft
• Stronghold (1993 video game)
• Dragons of Flame (video game)
• Shadow Sorcerer

BOZ (talk) 05:24, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I will see what I can do! Robert E. Lee has been in the news a lot lately, LOL. I am on vacation at the moment (hooray Gen Con!) and probably won't have time to go to the library next week either, but the week after might be a possibility. BOZ (talk) 06:20, 19 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there, Jimmy! Don't know if you had anything left for the list above, but if not that is fine - you did great on about half of them, so I call that a good result. If you are up to taking a look at a few more, I took a look at my list again, and this time I've got a number of them that have 3-4 sources under the reception section; so, that is actually pretty decent, better than a lot of other articles in fact, and certainly enough to make them safe from a GNG perspective, but of course one important part of article improvement is buiding up that reception section to be even stronger, so anything more you can add to these would be fantastic. :)

• Apocalypse: The Game of Nuclear Devastation
• Autoduel
• Incunabula (video game)
• Space Crusade: The Voyage Beyond
• Wooden Ships and Iron Men (video game)
• Battlecars (video game)
• Ogre (video game)
• MechWarrior 3050
• Buck Rogers: Matrix Cubed
• Tunnels & Trolls: Crusaders of Khazan
• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Cloudy Mountain
• Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun
• Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace
• War of the Lance (video game)
• Blood & Magic
• Dungeon Hack
• Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor
• Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures
• Gateway to the Savage Frontier
• Treasures of the Savage Frontier

BOZ (talk) 03:26, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I noticed you recently included a review of King's Quest VI from PC Magazine 12. Would it possible for you to scan the review for me? I was working on this article a few months ago but I stopped halfway through; now I'm gathering KQ6 materials and reviews once again to expand it further. So if you can provide the scan for me, that'll be very helpful. Thanks a lot, κατάσταση 22:55, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, thanks for your help earlier. In a second note, do you know if you have anything else on King's Quest VI in your archive? I noticed you also included a PC Gamer US list of best games. Maybe that could also be useful. Thanks a lot, κατάσταση 06:45, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JimmyBlackwing,

I like the sound of this initiative. I'll certainly do my part. Here are the links to the 1999 awards [3] and the 2000 awards [4]. --SubSeven (talk) 05:52, 15 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I did miss a page! A page awarding one of my favorite games, shameful :) Here is the scan: [5] --SubSeven (talk) 21:06, 17 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, Jimmy! You are in luck.  :) It took almost two weeks until I had the chance to get to it, but I had a productive evening for you. My local library has a database of newspapers from across the country, some stretching back into the 90s and even a few from the 80s. A lot of them have the full text scanned, but many are just abstracts that contain maybe the first paragraph or two.

So here is what I found for the game Robert E. Lee: Civil War General. I got the full text of articles from the Orlando Sentinel (11/6/1996), the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (11/28/1996), and the Orange County Register (2/23/1997), so I will have to e-mail those to you. This should help to provide some variety to the article instead of just the usual game magazines, eh?

There are five more articles that I did not have the text for, so you may have to find someone who can get copies for you. I know that Paul Erik has sometimes been able to help me with that sort of thing. Those are the Dallas Morning News (10/11/1996), the Fort Worth Star (11/2/1996), the San Diego Union (11/19/1996), Memphis paper Commercial Appeal (1/3/1997), and Cleveland's The Plain Dealer (1/13/1997).

I can definitely help you more like this in the future, but keep in mind that I have (at best) one day a week to go to the library, so if you have specific articles you want to work on let me know.  :) BOZ (talk) 03:19, 30 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Jimmy. In a matter completely unrelated to all things Myth, I wanted to run a quick question past you. I see on your user page that you invite people to make requests for old magazine scans, so, well, you can probably work out why I'm here. Specifically, I'm looking for some PC Gamer scans from August 1994 (a review of Serf City: Life is Feudal), March 1999 (review of The Settlers III), November 2001 (review of The Settlers: Fourth Edition) and May 2005 (review of Heritage of Kings: The Settlers), and some PC Gamer UK scans from June 1994 (review of The Settlers) and March 2005 (review of The Settlers: Heritage of Kings). The catch is that in only one case do I actually have the page I need (the May 2005 issue of PC Gamer; I need page 62). So, I guess, first of all, do you have access to those issues? If you do, have you already uploaded them? I wouldn't expect you to trawl through a bunch of physical magazines searching for one page reviews, but if you've already scanned and uploaded the contents, I'd be happy to search through them myself if you could point me to them. Let me know in your own time, no rush. Bertaut (talk) 03:12, 19 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello Jimmy! I'm looking to improve X-Men: Children of the Atom and Marvel Super Heroes, and could really use your help once again (I previously asked you for scans for X-Men vs. Street Fighter). Would it be possible for you to provide me with scans of any relevant articles from Issues 35 and 40 of Next Generation Magazine, as well as Issue 6 of Official PlayStation Magazine? Thank you for your time! Wani (talk) 21:13, 18 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Jimmy,

Always more than glad to help. Here are the scans of the PC Gamer awards from 2002. [6] --SubSeven (talk) 01:08, 15 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JimmyBlackwing
Here you are:

The Ninth Annual PC Gamer Awards (March 2003 - #108)

• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

The 11th Annual PCG Awards (March 2005 - #134)

• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Sorry it was sort of a rush job so some of the text by the spine may be illegible. Please let me know if you need anything rescanned or otherwise explained or made legible. I can also supply any info like ISSNs, Editor in Chief, article authors, etc if needed, and I believe the page numbers are all found at the bottom of each page. -Thibbs (talk) 04:06, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Jimmy! This inquiry has to do with the fact that I'm monitoring the FAR situation that's been brewing over the Halo Wikipedia entry lately. As far as I'm concerned the development overview is not one of the article's strongest suits and I'd be willing to address this flaw in the meantime, but to that end I need access to a crucial article in Electronic Gaming Monthly's February 2002 issue titled "Afterthoughts – Halo", which explains the rationale behind some of the more fundamental revisions made to the game during its development. The WP:VG's print sources database names you as the issue's possessor, but the notice at the top of your talk page states that your magazine collection will be out of your reach for the majority of 2018. Still, I would be much obliged if you could grant access to the relevant scans in the short run. Electroguv (talk) 11:27, 17 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Thanks Jimmy, it's nice that your help can be counted on as always. However, I should note that I was lucky enough to get my hands on these scans some time prior to your post on the talk page for Halo. Electroguv (talk) 23:03, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • Anyway, as you've already pointed out, Halo's development is very well documented indeed, perhaps excessively so. Considering the amount of media coverage the topic has received over the years, it seems that the scope of the work required is daunting, even discouraging in fact. With this in mind, it is quite a relief to see that you're willing to lend a helping hand. Keep up the good work! Electroguv (talk) 23:23, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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ToeJam & Earl recently(-ish)lost its FA status; I demurred from trying to prevent this because 1. time constraints prevented it (constraints imposed by people who love or pay me), 2. Wikipedia largely treats those who contribute with contempt (Niemti;snaake;whoeverthefuck is finally a recognised whackamole puppeteer, who'd have thought?), but anyway, let's not not dwell on that. 3. I didn't really see how the reception section of an early '90s middle-weight game could be improved - it cost real money the first time. And part of me wants to see Wikipedia die and be replaced by probably multiple alternatives. Anyway... the short of this is that TJ&Earl appears to have lost its GA status too. Does a fallen FA get bumped down to C-class even if it went through a separate successful GA review? I'm sure I could ask at a wikiproject or a helpdesk, but I'd prefer someone with a brain ;) bridies (talk) 14:43, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's B-class, not C-class, for what that's worth. bridies (talk) 15:01, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks man. I'll look into it myself it I get time and can muster the inclination. bridies (talk) 15:04, 27 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Jimmy! I have lately been working a little bit on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Next Generation Magazine page, which I see you have an interest in. I don't know how much time I will put into it overall, but I added or fixed a number of links, and I also tossed up a few little stubby articles about games that I found at least one other review for. I will probably do a little work on that from time to time when I am bored. :) BOZ (talk) 16:25, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The page has a lot more redlinks than I expected, although most of it is just because the page is probably overdue on maintenance. A lot of the redlinks had actual articles but were pointing at non-existent titles so I either made reasonable redirects or fixed the link on the reference page, and some were just typos, a few had been deleted, and some of the blue links were due to pointing at the wrong article or at disambiguation pages so I fixed those links as well. Some of the remaining redlinks I actually created articles for, and I restored one of the deleted articles - Burning Soldier which had no sources on the article 10 years ago, but I found a few... the article needs massive cleanup though. I did not add the NG reviews to most of the articles though, but hopefully fixing up the links on the page will inspire someone to go through them. :) I have finished the issues #1 and #2 so far. BOZ (talk) 19:29, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I also created little stubs for anything that was still a redlink for the first two issues so far. Some of them may be redirected or deleted, but at least I put a starting point up there in case there truly are more sources to expand them. :) BOZ (talk) 11:59, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Armored Fist was previously deleted due to copyright violations so there was nothing to restore, so I just started it over from scratch.  :) Armored Fist 2 is linked to a few reviews, so I will see if I can start that one too. BOZ (talk) 12:07, 22 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Was I right to put U.S. Navy Fighters on the Jane's games template? The articles made it look like it was part of that series, or at least a precursor. BOZ (talk) 01:48, 8 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've gotten through the first three issues of NG. Martin did some work on Burning Soldier, so it is a lot better now. I have started (or restored) a number of other articles on games from the era using reviews from the (so far) first three issues of Next Generation as starting points - including Battlecorps, Doctor Hauzer, Shadow: War of Succession, Family Feud, Motocross Championship, Zephyr, NHL All-Star Hockey '95, PGA Tour Golf III, The Shadow, and more! In cases where I found the games on pages like Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/GameFan or Wikipedia:WikiProject Video games/Reference library/Computer Gaming World, I made notes of this below the reception section, since I do not have access to the reviews myself. BOZ (talk) 03:14, 13 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey cool, Gazillionaire is one of the articles that I created as part of this project, cool to hear that it won an award. :) BOZ (talk) 13:26, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

So far, all of the few dozen articles I have created while going through the Next Generation review list are still around. For the 3DO version of the Yū Yū Hakusho (1994 video game) published by Tomy (last good version), I have not found any other sources yet, so someone redirected it to Tomy. I was wondering if you have seen anything that can be used to restore the article? According to the List of Yu Yu Hakusho video games there were quite a few, but this was the only one for the 3DO. BOZ (talk) 13:27, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK, great! That will probably be enough for me to give it another try at least. :) BOZ (talk) 13:55, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Jimmy- I did miss a page, well spotted. Here it is! [7] --SubSeven (talk) 03:40, 6 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there! I found your name listed as contact person in the VG reference library for Next Generation and wondered if you could provide me with a couple scans for the game Tonic Trouble, from NGen as well as some others. As per the reference libraries, there should be: a preview and a review in Next Generations' July 1997 and October 1999 issues, a preview and a review in EGM's January 1997 and September 1999 issues, a preview in GameFan from February 1998 and a review in Nintendo Power from September 1999. Please let me know which of these you can provide. Lordtobi (✉) 16:09, 7 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Do you have any content for Lumines series? I'm trying to make Lumines Live! and possibly Lumines Supernova into articles instead of redirects. Lumines: Puzzle Fusion also references EGM's top 50 games of 2005. If you have the information, interviews, etc. that would be very helpful.Blue Pumpkin Pie (talk) 23:23, 11 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Thank you for helping me out. The sources you provided really helped me out on Lumines, Lumines: Puzzle Fusion, and Lumines II. It is greatly appreciated.Blue Pumpkin Pie (talk) 01:28, 15 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're going to like this! No, no, no... not a review from CGW, but a review of the first issue of CGW from the magazine Space Gamer! I saw that and I said, wow! Now normally, I would just pull a sentence or two from the review and add it to an existing article as I work through User:BOZ/The Space Gamer (most of it is tabletop games, but as I move through the early 1980s issues there have been more computer game reviews) but in this case maybe you want to see the full review in case you want to make more use of it? BOZ (talk) 16:54, 22 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's about 5 paragraphs in all, so I will type it up later today and I will send it to you by e-mail. It is from the January 1982 issue, so you might find the insight into the very early history of CGW insightful! BOZ (talk) 17:09, 22 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I added a little bit from that review to the article so you have the citation information, and I e-mailed you the full text. Feel free to use that however you wish! BOZ (talk) 02:32, 23 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Here is an interesting situation I came across... since the same man designed a play-by-mail game and then 12 years later a video game of the same name which sound like they were built on pretty similar premises, I wonder if there is a connection. :) BOZ (talk) 02:11, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Awesome! Who knows, if you ever find a good source about the video game (it has none, currently) it might talk about the development, and then we'll see! :) BOZ (talk) 02:22, 30 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Moin JimmyBlackwing,
I just wanted to drop a huge "Thanks!" for the links to sources that you leave behind on so many adventure game talk pages. I am writing, enhancing and maintaining articles on older adventure games in the German Wikipedia, and I appreciate your work here very much. So rest assured it doesn't go unnoticed. ;-)
Kudos, and kind regards, Grueslayer 08:13, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there! I did some cleanup with the Category:Cryo Interactive games. If you have sources for some articles, you could for example restore Gift or make one out of Hard Boiled, or others in the category. :) 2600:1700:E820:1BA0:C112:2444:D6E0:55D5 (talk) 17:37, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! I'll see if I come across anything for those. Oftentimes I'm not looking for sources for any particular game—I just add whatever I happen to find while digging. If Gift or Hard Boiled sources come up, I'll look into reviving the articles. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 18:50, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

No worries, I was just pointing those out as examples since I was checking out the List of Cyro games and those came up as redirects. 2600:1700:E820:1BA0:C112:2444:D6E0:55D5 (talk) 20:01, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, sorry to bother you! Aside from my comment on Talk:Gift (video game), if you wanted to do more with Cryo games, I decided to take a look at the List of Cryo Interactive video games and see what games still do not have articles in English WP but do have articles on French WP. Those might result in future articles?

• The Guardian of Darkness [8] (linked to from UK PlayStation Magazine list)
• Money Mad (video game) [9]
• Monsterville [10]
• Saga: Rage of the Vikings [11]

There were others, but they had fewer citations than these. 73.168.15.161 (talk) 03:08, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey! Thanks for the tips. As it stands, my interest in Cryo is mostly limited to its adventure games like Egypt, Atlantis and Dune—the other releases haven't really come onto my radar so far. I might eventually branch out and help to expand coverage of its other titles, but, for right now, it's not really my lane. I appreciate your efforts in spotting these articles, though. They definitely look like promising conversions to the English Wikipedia—if you're bilingual or comfortable with Google Translate (my personal option), I don't believe there's anything preventing an IP user from being bold and making the conversion themselves. Cryo's coverage is pretty substandard on the English Wikipedia right now, so every little bit helps. Happy editing! JimmyBlackwing (talk) 03:48, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK! And, I must say that your improvements on those articles are getting them looking much better, as per the usual. 73.168.15.161 (talk) 11:39, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! JimmyBlackwing (talk) 16:38, 23 August 2018 (UT:C)

As someone who has spent a lot of time and energy creating articles on graphic adventure games of the 90s and early 00s (of which Cryo is a key developer), this conversation is quite interesting to me. :) Due to work, I'm not sure how much time I can invest into these articles, but if I have a spare moment at the computer, instead of wondering what article to edit, I'll have a discrete list to follow which is a time-saver. :)--Coin945 (talk) 23:48, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Coin945, I am glad you were able to make some use out of this! :) You could possibly also restore Gift using the French version. You might be able to make an article out of Hard Boiled, but it has no French article at this time.

On an unrelated note, I tried to restore Total Recall (video game) not long ago (last good version), but it got redirected again due to lack of notability. I see that it had reviews in Power Play, Your Sinclair, and The One based on the WP:VG Reference library, but I do not have access to those magazines. Likewise, I tried to restore Doom Troopers (last good version) which was also redirected again, and I see that it had another review in GameFan and could have reviews elsewhere? Could either of you take a look and see if you have access to those sources? 73.168.15.161 (talk) 20:27, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• Hey @73.168.15.161:, I have an exciting challenge for you. I've posted some sources for Gift below. Have a crack at writing a nice article on the game using those sources. The WP:VG community will be able to help you out if you get stuck but be WP:BOLD and give it a go. :) --Coin945 (talk) 09:08, 2 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• • Gry Online review https://www.gry-online.pl/S020.asp?ID=188
  • Jeuxvideo review #1 http://www.jeuxvideo.com/articles/0000/00001390_test.htm
  • Jeuxvideo review #2 http://www.jeuxvideo.com/articles/0000/00001213_test.htm
  • Jeuxvideo review #3 http://www.jeuxvideo.com/articles/0000/00000933_test.htm
  • Eurogamer review https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/r_gift_pc
  • Consoles Plus review http://www.abandonware-magazines.org/affiche_mag.php?mag=51&num=3040
  • Main Page (contains wonderful making of section) https://web.archive.org/web/20010813162416/http://gift.cryogame.com:80/uk/flash/index.html
  • GameKult review https://web.archive.org/web/20130331031230/http://www.gamekult.com:80/jeux/test-gift-SU3010000012t.html
  • Consoles Plus GBA review http://download.abandonware.org/magazines/Consoles%20Plus/consoleplus_numero112/Consoles%20+%20112%20Page%20104%20(mai%202001).jpg

Sounds good, Coin945!  :) Do you see anything more for Total Recall, or Doom Troopers? I would see what I can do with them as well. I'm all for BOLD attempts. ;) 73.168.15.161 (talk) 13:22, 2 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• @73.168.15.161: Here's a tonne of sources for Total Recall. Enjoy. :)--Coin945 (talk) 01:27, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

• • http://amr.abime.net/amr_search.php?search=total+recall&mag_id=0&action=Find
  • http://www.crashonline.org.uk/86/totalrecall.htm

Coin945, thank you tonnes, LOL! I am getting to work on that one right now. I also split The City of Lost Children (video game) from the movie article this morning, but did not need to do anything more with it as it was pretty well developed already. One last thing, I would also like to bring back Doom Troopers as I mention above, do you see anything more for that one? 73.168.15.161 (talk) 03:02, 6 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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What year do you classify Blizzard as starting to self-publish their own titles? I find it confusing as companies like Sierra and Knowledge Adventure (also part of the same company as Blizzard) would publish games under their own name, but never their parent company's name. Luigitehplumber (talk) 11:22, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey there! Browsing Wikipedia today I was very impressed with your work on games relating to Looking Glass Studios, but it appears that you missed one Looking Glass game: Mini Racers, a project developed with Shigeru Miyamoto but later canceled. Currently, it has no article at all. Do you think it would be feasible for that game to also receive its own article, maybe at a comparable quality to the others? Also, would you be willing to help out with the primary Looking Glass article? It's been in a bad shape for years, and I just now started to clean it up using two separate features from Polygon (2015) and Retro Gamer (2018). Lordtobi (✉) 23:35, 18 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, Jimmy! Just showing off a bit, I guess, but of course if you see anything you like, you can always add to it. :) As you are undoubtedly keenly aware, computer wargames have been a pretty consistent genre since the very inception of the idea of a video game, and I know you have done lots of work on lots of wargame articles. As you are also aware, I have been fairly active on improving and adding plenty of retro game articles. I figure I have done enough of those so far that I can bring up some of what I have done in case you want to have a look. :)

First of all, most recently I made Carriers at War into an article about the game series, and broke it up into Carriers at War 1941–1945: Fleet Carrier Operations in the Pacific (1984), Carriers at War (video game) (1992), and Carriers at War II (1993).

As part of my work on Next Generation, I have added some wargame articles, but not as many from that mid-1990s area, including Armored Fist, U.S. Navy Fighters, Midnight Raiders, Front Lines, Rapid Deployment Force: Global Conflict, The Pure Wargame, Tank Commander (video game), D-Day: America Invades, Black Fire (video game), Flying Nightmares, Agile Warrior F-111X, Werewolf vs. Comanche, Empire II: The Art of War, Scramble Cobra, Top Gun: Fire At Will, and American Civil War: From Sumter to Appomattox - odds are you've seen a few of these already, and I'm sure I've pointed out a few to you. :) Several of those are tank games or combat flight simulators, but for the sake of argument, I am including anything where non-fantastic combat or warfare is the primary form of gameplay, as a wargame.

As part of my work on The Space Gamer, I have added a few early titles from the late 1970s and early 1980s, including Air Raid (1978 video game), FS1 Flight Simulator, Winged Samurai, North Atlantic Convoy Raider, Torpedo Fire, Voyage of the Valkyrie, and I also just added what I figured was a very necessary redirect of Microcomputer Games to Avalon Hill. :)

There are a whole lot of retro games, particularly those which are more purely wargames, which do not have articles yet. If I find reviews, I will continue to add them! In particular, for example, I was looking at the earliest SSI games and there are several such wargames in its early catalogue that are just waiting to be created. BOZ (talk) 04:23, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I will see what I can find for Operation Crusader and Stalingrad by Atomic Games! BOZ (talk) 12:43, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I put up some very basic stub articles for Operation Crusader and World at War: Stalingrad. :) BOZ (talk) 15:45, 7 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Speaking of wargames, I was adding some "missing" games from the CGW's 150 Best PC Games list, and just now I put up Gettysburg: The Turning Point, Solitaire's Journey, Kampfgruppe, TV Sports: Football, Fighter Duel Pro 2, and War in Russia - I'm sure at least some of those will interest you. :) There are a few more wargame articles from that list that I will start in the near future! BOZ (talk) 01:10, 19 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK! I got the last six games from that list, and again I think you may be interested in a few of them.  :) I started MiG Alley Ace, NukeWar, Crystal Caliburn, Typhoon of Steel (video game), Tigers on the Prowl, and Courtside College Basketball. BOZ (talk) 02:26, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Will do. I was observing the French versions of wargaming articles, and I notice that their coverage of earlier wargames is much more comprehensive than what we have! BOZ (talk) 04:32, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

They sure are, for example I saw the big difference between List of Strategic Simulations games on which almost half the games are redlinks and Liste de jeux Strategic Simulations on which maybe 10% are redlinks. Also, our video game section on List of Avalon Hill games is fairly small, but their Avalon Hill article has a much larger list and a lot more bluelinks than our list. Maybe 1/3 of the games on our List of MicroProse games are redlinks, while the list on their MicroProse is again only about 10% redlinks. I could go on, but I am sure you get the idea. :) BOZ (talk) 14:04, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the barnstar back. Going on eleven years myself. From asking for help with the copyediting for Chronicles of Riddick to writing up articles for 80s British games. A lot can happen. GamerPro64 16:26, 23 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Always appreciated. Do you have access to a lot of magazine sources? - Bryn (talk) (contributions) 23:28, 15 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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• Given the presence of 7 references and several good-sized paragraphs, I'd say it's an easy start-class. But I won't pick a fight about it. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 20:45, 11 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Jimmy. By any chance do you know anything about this game? I am hoping to make something of it but I am stuck at the plot section of it. I think this has a lot of potential to it. GamerPro64 05:10, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah more information on the development would be nice. Anything you have found will go a long way for this article. Thanks. GamerPro64 14:10, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Is [13] this and this [14] the same thing.The press release is a bit below Ravencroft creator joins Bethesda. I was thinking we can use this in the Daggerfall article if they are the same thing/the content is the same. Although the question remains why did the PR Newswire publish the press release so late.Timur9008 (talk) 19:48, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I've said it already a year ago but I need to repeat it in view of the occasion: Thanks for all your (unwitting) help. I'm currently revising my old de:WP article on Paradise (video game) and find a shitload of sources on the talk page of the en:WP article. So, once again: Thanks! :)
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Hey mate, do you still have EGM 160 from 2002? Trying to double-check a source I apparently used to a story about Halo c. page 214. Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ^talk 23:31, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Well I decided that the Deactivators is a loss cause for FAC so I want to get started on Daikatana as soon as possible. Is there any real approaches you have for the article or is it a straight revamp? GamerPro64 20:38, 23 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I am prepared for the long haul. I needed to new video game article to work on in-between this and working on another movie article. Daikatana was pretty much the reason I joined Wikipedia so I might as well return the favor. Thanks for the sources, btw. Going to be put into good use, that's for sure. GamerPro64 00:07, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]